Perhaps no single discipline is more closely associated with DeepStar than flow assurance, which the consortium almost single-handedly matured from a little-understood production-blocking problem to a manageable science. "In the early days, we developed all this neat hardware, but no one was installing it and we wondered why. We found out it was because they had no confidence in flow assurance," said DeepStar Technology Manager Jim Chitwood.
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